There’s barely any advantage to being on Mars compared to orbiting some random Lagrange point or the sun itself.
Oye Beltalowda.
There’s barely any advantage to being on Mars compared to orbiting some random Lagrange point or the sun itself.
Oye Beltalowda.
Samuel Delany, if you’re interested in look at New Wave stuff.
Africa-focused sci-fi but I don’t remember what that genre is called…
I had no idea you could die from jogging a marathon so I think you would be wrong about that.
Literally the first person to run a marathon, the Greek runner Pheidippides bringing the news to Athens about the Greek victory over the Persians at Marathon, died from exhaustion, his last words being “Rejoice, we conquer!” as he collapsed.
Humans: let’s eat the substance that these plants make to keep the wrong animals from eating its fruit. Let’s eat it for fun!
That’s the Federal indictment brought by Jack Smith, not the State indictment brought by Fani Willis. Moving the Georgia case to Federal court would involve the Federal court district proximate to Fulton County, not relocation to a whole other state.
Maybe all his companies are like this, it’s just the first one that’s been so public and shown his true colours.
I’m not going to look for it now, but there was a Twitter thread from last year that kind of talks about this.
Basically, SpaceX and Tesla are companies that grew up with Elon as an early investor, and have learned early on how to contain him. They institutionally have firewalls in place to keep him from wrecking the real work they’re doing, like dedicated Musk-handlers that slow walk his bad ideas until he changes his mind a few days later.
Twitter basically had none of those institutional firewalls, and could not container him with company culture.
Meanwhile, you have the Elon fanboys still pretending Twitter is doing better than it ever has.
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Well, it is, if you’re a Nazi.
Suppose you were a business making, say, voting machines. It’s a good business – there are a lot of elections, they have to be tabulated, and you have a way of making that tabulation easier to do. You’re not going to be Google or Microsoft, but you’re in a comfortable niche.
Then comes a bunch of dumbfuck conspiracy theorists who accuse you of rigging the vote against their favored candidate. You’re not happy about this, but this is just a bunch of nutjobs. To some extent, what can you do? Then this major news organization takes up what those conspiracy theorists are saying, and they’re doing this to enrich themselves by putting out news that these dumbfucks like to hear. This amplification is damaging to your business (because it’s costly to defend yourself and you’re losing business anyway), and you can prove that this major news organization is doing this on purpose, for their own profit.
You sue that major news organization. Discovery is a delight, because these people really did know that there was no evidence for any of these conspiracy theories, but they kept repeating them over and over again, damaging your business.
Does this sound familiar? That’s why we have laws so that victims of libel can recover some of those damages.
Now, I’m not saying Musk is justified. Musk can go threatening to sue, etc., and I’m sure ADL lawyers would be delighted to argue before a judge to tell Musk to fuck off, since he really doesn’t have grounds to stand on.
Twitter stockholders collectively received $44B from Musk on October 27. So, yes, Twitter was worth $44B at that moment. And, yes, it’s also true that Musk grossly overpaid for a company probably worth around $10B because he made the most costly “420” joke in history. Both statements are simultaneously true.
He seems to be saying that the market value of Twitter is $40B less than what it was before stuff happened. “Value destruction” tends to be applied to “stock” (like market cap) rather than “flow” (like revenues).
He’s basically saying Twitter is worth $4B, given that he paid $44B and seems to be saying $40B of values was destroyed.
Losing $40B in less than a year is, uh, remarkable.
To be fair, those are Mission Impossible chase scenes really disrupt traffic.
“And then, the cannibalism started…”
Getting rid of Twitter and Reddit has been productive. I read the Expanse (and the novella collection) as well as Project Hail Mary, and the first book of the Three Body Problem.
Given the dumb shit that happens in this, the most ridiculous time line, I would lay money on aliens invading, and Fumio Kishida manifesting super powers to defend Japan. It’s in the same ballpark as Trump jumping bail and Dog the Bounty Hunter bringing him, but, you know you can’t completely rule it out.
“OK, how can we make a web interface more difficult to use?”
I think The Expanse, while an amazing series that should be read anyway, doesn’t fit the bill of “humans are more advanced than the aliens”, since the Protomolecule and everything created by the Romans are essentially in the “tech as high level magic” category. Humans can’t even understand the technology, often saying things like, the Protomolecule just changed the laws of physics.
Well, it could be that the tech tree for intersteller travel is a road not taken by humans
There’s also “Children of the Sky”, which focuses on the humans on the Tines world.
But someone recently said he revived the NFT market single-handedly, with people making a bigly 1000% return!